Description

BURNLEY

SD8432NW BRIDGE STREET
906-1/16/24 (East side)
Bridge Inn and attached railings

GV II

Public house. Dated 1905 at corner of ground floor. Coursed
sandstone rubble with freestone dressings, slate roof hipped
at the corner. Edwardian Baroque style. Irregular plan on
acutely-angled corner site.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, with 4 windows to Bridge Street, a narrow
single-window splayed corner and a 5-window entrance front to
Bank Parade; with dressed quoins, a plain frieze and
modillioned cornice broken at the corner by a pedimented
feature. The 4-window facade to Bridge Street is regular, with
sashed windows to both floors in vertically-linked
architraves, all with plain aprons and raised sills, those at
ground floor with panelled pilaster jambs, plain friezes and
moulded cornices, and those above with shouldered architraves
and small cornices. The 5-window facade to Bank Parade is
similar except in the 1st bay, which has coupled windows on
both floors, with engaged Tuscan columns to ground floor, and
the 2nd bay which has a tall doorway with a panelled
pilastered architrave, moulded lintel, plain frieze and
dentilled cornice, and panelled double doors with a large
overlight. The splayed corner has a carved cartouche at ground
floor with raised lettering "BRIDGE INN / 1905", a narrow
sashed window at 1st floor with a moulded architrave,
pulvinated frieze and moulded cornice; and, above this, a
pilastered segmental-pedimented feature with a shouldered
panel containing carved Art Nouveau foliation surrounding
raised lettering "G.D.L.F.". Ridge chimneys.
INTERIOR altered.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the front area to Bridge Street is
enclosed by wrought-iron railings in 6 sections, with an Art
Nouveau panel in the centre of each.

Listing NGR: SD8417432676

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26273558

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